Daily Briefs: Electoral Dice-Rolling
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From the comments:
Harold Bloom says: Bravo for your mention of Thomas Hardy’s Die Hard. For curious readers, I also recommend the following:
Jane Austen’s Total Recall
Charles Dickens’s The Hunt for Red October
and of course, Oscar Wilde’s seminal The Important of Being Earnest Saves Christmas.
Well, here it is, Day 6 of the Activia 14 Day Challenge, and I don’t feel as much like Jamie Lee Curtis as I expected to, although the pooping has been great! My new little pals, the Bifidus Regularis Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria, sure do reduce oro-fecal gut transit time, as advertised. I picture them wearing tiny little hardhats and carrying tiny little lunch pails on their way to punch in for work inside my intestines while I eat my Activia yogurt. Oh! And speaking of intestinal microbiota, the Cordish Company has come down against any light-rail plan that includes a route through the taxpayer-subsidized Power & Light Prefabricated Corporate Entertainment District in the heart of downtown Kansas City, insisting that patrons pay Cordish to park their cars in Cordish-owned lots if they want to drink beer out of plastic cups. Which they totally do! Besides, like really long buses all connected together and gliding on rails, trains would disgorge black people in dress-code-violating white T-shirts faster than the district’s security detail can hustle them back out to the street. MAX riders have probably noticed not only the total lack of bus stops in the Power & Light District but also the circuitous route the MAX line takes around the district on its way through downtown.
So there’s that. Sen. John McCain is attempting to appeal to the demographics of the Ice Road Truckers and the Democratic women who are actually Republicans by picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee without vetting her for ethics problems or Diablo Cody plot lines. Watching McCain’s campaign surrogates try to sell her foreign policy expertise to reporters has been like watching puppies get clubbed, only more fun and without triggering any unhelpful feelings of sympathy. All of this is on top of a hurricane-truncated convention week. After the jump, a recap of McCain’s holiday weekend, plus: Build your own Palin family. Click here, or on the 2008 Republican national ticket:
